TripAdvisor Reviews Amatique Bay Resort & Marina Puerto Barrios

Travel Blogs from Puerto Barrios

... mature and develop very rapidly in this time. The first few years sounded very rough and it was very common for most people to carry a gun with them at all times for protection. His clientele has mellowed over the last few years but some of his early guests had fairly shady and interesting jobs with some of the parties getting very loose and crazy. Not wanting to spill the beans on this page, if anyone is interested I am happy to share a couple of yarns ...

This morning was a 4am taxi to the bus station where we were expecting to get a bus to Guatemala City and stay the night. We were pleased to find out we could take a bus 'directly' to Tec˙m on the Mexican border for 850L ($40ish), so we jumped on that. We stopped a few times to drop people off and then started heading down to Guatemala City when we randomly pulled over, reversed a bit, and then stopped for an hour. No one said ...

... they can return to their families. Some return every weekend, some will return one weekend a year and some will never return.

There are teachers and volunteers who all live and work at the school. The teachers teach the children their every day classes and the volunteers look after the children every moment they are not in school, day and night. There always has to be at least one volunteer sleeping in the house of ...

... on stilts, which you have to walk across a raised wooden boardwalk to get to, our one even has a door you can open up at the back which gives you a little view out to a little river running along the back of the rooms. A bit of swimming before dinner followed by more swimming after dinner. The stars are very visible from here and Andres spent a lot of the evening looking up and trying to find star constellations with the help of an app on his ...

... person that gets on and goes round collecting all the cash, which of course starts a nice round of Guatemalan Musical Bus Chairs – my favourite game – especially when the music is sooooooo ******* ****! More ranting on that later – I still haven’t finished with this one….

So we stop off every two seconds to drop off every Tom, Dick and Enrique by nothing. I don’t understand why Guatemalan’s are always travelling… ...